On This Day In History Archive

AncientPages.com - On February 29, 1576  - Antonio Neri , a Florentine priest, was born in Florence, Italy. Neri was a glass maker, who conducted experiments with colored glass

AncientPages.com - On October 19, 1216,  John, King of England, died of dysentery at Newark Castle in Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire. He was the youngest son of Henrik II

AncientPages.com - On September 11, 1297, the Battle of Stirling Bridge took place near Stirling, at River Forth. It was the first Scottish Freedom War when Andrew Moray

AncientPages.com - On Aug 24, 1185, the Sack of Thessalonica by Normans of the Kingdom of Sicily took place and was one of the worst disasters to befall the Byzantine Empire in the 12th century.

AncientPages.com - On June 21, 1798, there was a military encounter between the Irish Rebellion and more than 13,000 British soldiers. They launched an attack on Vinegar Hill

AncientPages.com - On April 19, 1770, Captain James Cook spotted and claimed the East Coast of Australia Cook was born in northeast England in 1728, and in his late

AncientPages.com - On April 17, 1397, Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400) was recorded to have given the first presentation of his Canterbury Tales at the English royal court of Richard II.

AncientPages.com - On April 13, 1598, Henry IV of France signed the Edict of Nantes. It confirmed Roman Catholicism as the state religion, and at the same time, it granted

AncientPages.com - On April 9, 1747, the Scottish Jacobite Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, became the last man in Britain to be publicly beheaded at Tower Hill, London. The last

AncientPages.com - On April 3, 686, Maya king Yuknoom Ixquiac (Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk') - "Jaguar Paw Smoke" assumes the crown of Calakmul, now a Maya archaeological site in the

AncientPages.com -  On April 1, 1826, American Samuel Morey patented his "Gas or Vapor Engine" — the first internal combustion engine patent in the United States. Morey was the son of

AncientPages.com - On March 28, 845, Paris was attacked by Vikings under the leadership of Ragnar Lodbrok, nicknamed 'Hairy Breeches,' referring to the animal-skin trousers that he wore. Ragnar, one of

AncientPages.com - The first battle of Gaza took place on 26 March 1917. The main Turkish defensive position in southern Palestine centered on the city of Gaza. Officers of the

AncientPages.com - On March 24, 1401, Turco-Mongol emperor Timur, known as Tamburlaine in English,  sacked Syria's ancient and civilized town - Damascus, the second city of the Mameluke Empire. Left:

AncientPages.com - On March 22, 871, the Battle of Marton (or Meretun) was fought at a place recorded as Marton, possibly in Wiltshire or Dorset, England. Miniature of

AncientPages.com - On March 20, 1916, Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) submitted his "Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity" for publication in the journal Annals of Physics'

AncientPages.com - On March 18 (or 19), 1314, Jacques de Molay, the last grandmaster of the Knights Templars, an order of knighthood founded during the Crusades, was burned at stake. Jacques

AncientPages.com - On March 16, 1485, Anne Neville, the daughter of Richard Neville, 16th  Earl of Warwick, and Anne Beauchamp died mysteriously at the age of twenty-eight. Did tuberculosis

AncientPages.com - On March 14, 1757, John Byng, an admiral of the Royal Navy, was executed by firing squad for neglect of duty. Byng was born on October

AncientPages.com - On March 12, 1896, the first radiogram was sent by Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov. It traveled over 200 yards from one building of the St. Petersburg University to

AncientPages.com - On March 10, 241 BC, the Carthaginian relieving fleet was defeated near the Aegates Islands off western Sicily, and the event is known as the Battle of the